Comments on: Catholic Bishops give grants to Uganda http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/11/28/51390 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sun, 19 May 2013 14:07:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: jerry http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/11/28/51390/comment-page-1#comment-182036 jerry Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:30:37 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=51390#comment-182036 The Roman Catholic church has long had a policy to permit priests to lay aside certain aspects of the priesthood if those aspects would not be accepted by the society in which they wish to work. Priests may marry if the society won't accept unmarried priests. So if Americans of the Roman Catholic crutch had any sense, they would refuse to support a church that refuses to have women priests. I suspect much of their lack of priests would be eliminated. But better still is just to let them wither away. The Roman Catholic church has long had a policy to permit priests to lay aside certain aspects of the priesthood if those aspects would not be accepted by the society in which they wish to work. Priests may marry if the society won’t accept unmarried priests. So if Americans of the Roman Catholic crutch had any sense, they would refuse to support a church that refuses to have women priests. I suspect much of their lack of priests would be eliminated.

But better still is just to let them wither away.

]]> By: Snowman http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/11/28/51390/comment-page-1#comment-181663 Snowman Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:20:03 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=51390#comment-181663 If it is HER job, then they will discuss it with her, or it will not be discussed. This is America, not some backwards third world country. If they don't like it, they can go home. I'm sure the way things are going there will eventually be more Catholic churches there than there are here anyway. If it is HER job, then they will discuss it with her, or it will not be discussed. This is America, not some backwards third world country. If they don’t like it, they can go home. I’m sure the way things are going there will eventually be more Catholic churches there than there are here anyway.

]]> By: TJ Davis http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/11/28/51390/comment-page-1#comment-181503 TJ Davis Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:21:49 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=51390#comment-181503 I am associated in a peripheral sense with a Catholic dioceses. The problem is they have no new recruits. Where, in the past, when I was a young Catholic high school student, there were literally dozens of young seminarians eager to fill the ranks of the priesthood, now the few that ask for qualification can be counted on one hand. However, the flood of African priests is seemingly unending. And they are all, pretty much to the man, virulently conservative. They tow the Vatican line tooth and toenail. They are also very sexists and homophobic. I know of a woman who worked in the office who was outraged when two of them refused to discuss their health insurance program with her. They told her to shut up that is man's work. They said that even though she was in charge of that program administration for that dioceses. I am not, nor have I been for many years associated with the Catholic Church. But I have close family members who are intimately involved and having been raised amongst that cult I know others too. The bishops are simply funding their future priests pool. In a way we are seeing the slow slog of their demise. I am associated in a peripheral sense with a Catholic dioceses. The problem is they have no new recruits. Where, in the past, when I was a young Catholic high school student, there were literally dozens of young seminarians eager to fill the ranks of the priesthood, now the few that ask for qualification can be counted on one hand.
However, the flood of African priests is seemingly unending. And they are all, pretty much to the man, virulently conservative. They tow the Vatican line tooth and toenail. They are also very sexists and homophobic. I know of a woman who worked in the office who was outraged when two of them refused to discuss their health insurance program with her. They told her to shut up that is man’s work. They said that even though she was in charge of that program administration for that dioceses.
I am not, nor have I been for many years associated with the Catholic Church. But I have close family members who are intimately involved and having been raised amongst that cult I know others too.
The bishops are simply funding their future priests pool. In a way we are seeing the slow slog of their demise.

]]> By: customartist http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/11/28/51390/comment-page-1#comment-181461 customartist Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:20:58 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=51390#comment-181461 Tell Obama: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments He has some newly found cred. Tell Obama:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments

He has some newly found cred.

]]> By: leonardo Ricardo http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/11/28/51390/comment-page-1#comment-181449 leonardo Ricardo Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:41:45 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=51390#comment-181449 Let the blood money flow (same red color as the six new cardinals barettas). Let the blood money flow (same red color as the six new cardinals barettas).

]]> By: Richard Rush http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/11/28/51390/comment-page-1#comment-181443 Richard Rush Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:54:03 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=51390#comment-181443 No surprise. Maintaining and expanding the Catholic Church's power always trumps human decency. No surprise. Maintaining and expanding the Catholic Church’s power always trumps human decency.

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